1906 
Iht RURAL NEW.YORKER 
©ecemtior 13, 1920 
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ters receive no consideration. 
I am astonished to know that you can 
run a paper of so high a quality at the 
price of a dozen eggs. reader. 
New York. , 
Many of the supplies the farmer has to 
buy cost more units of the things he sells 
now than they did five years ago. The 
R. N.-Y. is an exception. It takes less 
of almost any farm product to pay for it 
now than before the war. It is well that 
this reader emphasized quality. The 
R. N.-\ r . must always keep up to its high 
standard. 
The Vigilance Committee of the Na¬ 
tional Association of the Motion Picture 
Industry is authority for the statement 
that worthless stock amounting to more 
than a quarter of a billion dollars is the 
yearly offering of the wildcat motion 
picture companies to the American pub¬ 
lic According to the report, the people 
have bought between $25,000,000 and 
$">0,000,000 of stock issues, none of which 
is worth the paper on which the certifi¬ 
cates are printed. 
Most of the victims are declared to be 
small wage - earners—clerks, stenogra¬ 
phers. barbers, waitresses, bootblacks, 
hotel porters and the like. Government 
employes in Washington are said to have 
bought considerable stock in a company 
floated there. Persons in straitened cir¬ 
cumstances. crediting the extravagant re¬ 
ports of stock salesmen as to great for¬ 
tunes “made overnight” in the movies, 
have exchanged Liberty bonds for stock 
that will never pay a dividend.—Daily 
Press. 
The motion picture business seems a 
fertile field for the operations of stock 
promoters. A few highly successful can 
be named to show the enormous profits 
in the business, just as a few of the 
big automobile manufacturers ai'e held 
up to view’ w’hen an automobile enterprise 
is being exploited. This warning to in¬ 
vestors by the legitimate houses in the 
business is very commendable. Farmers 
are not particularly victims of the 
“movie” promotion schemes, but the 
warning applies to stocks in all lines that 
are offered to farmers through salesmen 
and by mail. There may be exceptions, 
but the rule is stocks so offered have no 
material value, and the people who buy 
such stocks (or usually they buy the 
salesman’s guff) lose their money. 
I am enclosing a pamphlet sent me a 
while ago by Geo. IT. Perkins & Co. 
Would you consider the “German mark” 
a good investment? They speak of using 
a Liberty bond and making it work 
double. Would it be all right to invest 
Liberty bonds in this scheme? Please let 
me know just what you think of this 
whole business, as I have not much to 
invest and T do not want to go into any¬ 
thing and lose what little I have. G. I.M. 
Maine. 
We could uot advise country people of 
small means to gamble in German marks. 
G. I. M. will do well to keep liis Liberty 
bonds, which are the best security in the 
world at this time. That is why every 
get-rich-quick promoter is anxious to get 
them in exchange for something of ques¬ 
tionable value. 
Will yon see wdiat you can do in the 
way of collecting the enclosed account? 
This man. TI. Ochs. Rockaway Reach. 
L. I.. sent statement which looked as 
though there had been seven dozen eggs 
damaged, and that be had put in a claim 
for them. I waited a reasonable length 
of time and then wrote him regarding this 
claim, and he makes no reply. I then 
took the matter up with the express com¬ 
pany and asked them to investigate same 
and see if this was not a bogus claim on 
the part of Ochs. They report back that, 
these eggs were delivered in good con¬ 
dition. and no such claim entered. My 
loss was $5 25. s. L. P. 
New York. 
Indifference to one shipper’s complaint 
is sufficient justification for declining to 
trust H. Ochs with other goods, and we 
publish this record for the protection of 
shippers generally.* Our letters remained 
unanswered, and we did not find Mr. Ochs 
listed in our reference books. Ship only 
to parties with established credit. 
On Api'il 1. 1010, T sent 1.500 Califor¬ 
nia privet plants to F. L. Hancock. Dal¬ 
matia. Pa., for which he was to pay me 
$15.50. my wholesale price. As Mr. Han¬ 
cock described himself to me as a dealer 
in nursery stock, I allowed him the usual 
30 days’ time to pay for them, but he has 
refused even to answer my letters after 
telling me the plants arrived in fine shape 
and that he would pay; but I have been 
unable to collect this bill. What can you 
do? J. D. M. 
Pennsylvania. 
We were unable to make this collec¬ 
tion and referred it to our attorney, who 
reports that Mr. ITaneok is not financially 
responsible, and has little regard for his 
financial obligations, and it is impossible 
to make any collection. Our people will 
not want to deal with anyone with the 
record indicated by the subscriber’s letter 
and attorney’s report. 
Is the Quiseuberry Poultry School re¬ 
liable? It is located in Kansas City, Mo. 
They send out correspondence lessons; 
also sell books on poultry culture. T have 
bad some success, making as a side issue 
$200 on less than 75 hens per year, but 
have had lots of hens die, not knowing 
what ailed them, so would like to learn 
something besides what the experiment 
stations give out. MRS. A. M. H. 
New Jersey. 
Prof. Quisenberry is unquestionably a 
high poultry authority, but we do not 
recommend these correspondence school 
courses. If you so desire and want to 
take such a course, however, we should 
expect this course prepared by Prof. 
Quisenberry would prove as satisfactory 
as any. 
I am sending you a letter and informa¬ 
tion received from Leslie Jones, the real 
estate salesman of Olney. Ill. Would 
you advise me to list my farm with this 
firm? M. p. 
New York. 
Here we are again with the old Os¬ 
trander scheme. Each one adopting it 
has his own pretext for asking an ad¬ 
vance fee, but the principle is all the 
same. We have never yet known of any 
real estate concern asking for an advance 
fee to make a serious effort to sc!’ "?rm 
property—there is such easy money in 
the advance fee game that they do not. 
need to trouble themselves with selling 
farms to make a living. 
Willi you advise me what you think of 
the Kelley Tire & Rubber Corporation. 
New TIaveu. Conn.? Some friends have 
already bought, others are thinking to 
buy. and I would like to warn them in 
time, if this is not a desirable proposition. 
Connecticut. d. E. s. 
The circular announces that the new 
corporation is to take over the stock of 
the Kelley Tire & Rubber Company. The 
new corporation was organized in Dela¬ 
ware. with capital «tock of $5,000,000. 
par value $10 per share. One share of 
the new stock is offered for two shares 
of the stock of the old company. The 
circular speaks of the shortage in the 
supply for automobile tires, which, of 
course, is just the reverse of the real 
situation in the industry at the present 
time. Thie proposition is only a pros¬ 
pect. If the public puts up sufficient 
money the business may be developed, 
but whether it can compete with the man¬ 
ufacturers already well established and 
well fiuanced is another question. Even 
though well managed, the corporation has 
a big handicap to overcome, and we could 
not advise country people to put their 
savings into such a project. 
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You cannot know the possibilities of a power 
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price. Every modern farm should have one. 
Learn more about Litscher Lite at once. 
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C. L. TEMPLAR 
Distributor for New York State 
329 Oneida St., SYRACUSE, N.Y. 
Factory: Litscher Lite Corporation, Grand Rapids, Michigan 
Rognrdiug claim for S25.25 against Ar¬ 
thur Lee. Riverbead, N. Y., please put 
this matter in bands of attorney, and if 
it costs the amount of the bill to collect 
I shall be perfectly satisfied as long ns lie 
is made to settle. L. c. h. 
Vermont. 
Make a note of the name and address 
and do not ship to Arthur Lee. Com¬ 
plaints have boon continuous, and the 
only suggestion for payment is that he 
“will pay as soon as he can.” as lie lias 
had “bard luck.” This is his usual plea, 
but every year the complaints come in 
just the same. There are many judg¬ 
ments against him, and attorneys cannot 
collect. We repeat the caution in order 
to save others from future loss. 
The representative of the Imperial Oil 
& Development Company has been ar-, 
rested and indicted in Toledo, Ohio. One 
purchaser was charged 100 per cent more 
than the par value of the stock, and it 
v r as found that the company was operat¬ 
ing as a “Common Law Company”: had 
no blue-sky license, and was uot a corpor¬ 
ation of any State. If more of these 
promoters were caught, up-country peo¬ 
ple, and city people, too, would be saved 
much money. 
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